Custom Start Menu Button Collection

Arc said:

The first ever thing made by me. Dont know whether it looks good or not . Please comment on it, and suggest me how improve myself :)

Not bad for a first effort Arc They are a couple of pixels too big, the hover state is jumping slightly, make sure you centre the orbs with the background then move the top and bottom orb equal distance from the centre!!

I usually press shift and press up 5 times, let go of shift then nudge up another 4 pixels with your arrow key, do the same for the bottom orb shift down 5 times let go of shift nudge down another four pixels!! also use another bmp image as a guide, then just rename the new finished orb to retain the one you used as a guide!!

Hope this helps

Hi Anthony !
Followed your directions minutely, and made a chrome thing. The hover state problem is now solved. I made it picture 45 pixels, and still a bit big .

How to put the glow effects in mouse over state ?

BrokenBelief said:

Hey, first time posting. I'm working on creating some of my own, and I've got everything down, except for conserving the transparency. It's infuriating. I can't get the .bmp to conserve the transparency. It always defaults to white no matter what settings I try to use. Anyone have a very detailed step-by-step to make Photoshop (CS3) save these bmp images with transparency? Mine always come out with a white background, instead of black.

Just fill the background layer with black
On the other layers put the orbs in. BMP's aren't designed to conserve transparency.

I've decided to start this thread in memory of the previous lost thread in which many lost their beloved start orbs.
This thread can be a repository of start orbs made by everyone.

Starting with a few of the first start orbs i made,

Wel done, Gladson pal ! Starting your new thread .... hope it will flourish

As I dont save things, I got only two that I made previously

What's wrong with this thread?

StartOrbz Genuine Creations

tw33k said:

What's wrong with this thread?

StartOrbz Genuine Creations

Perhaps the thread is is for the start buttons made with the program Startorbz. Here the things are mage with photoshop or paint.net